Gallery:
Air

Miss
Ruth Law sitting in an early air plane on Daytona Beach around 1916.

The
O'Falks Department Store donating nylon hose to Miss North Carolina at
the Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Island in 1940.

A
man standing next to a seaplane on the shore at Fort Myers.

Stunt
plane at the Tampa Airport, Drew Field, in the 1940s.

Pilots
and mechanics with the "first aero plane to fly to Tampa."

This
photo, taken on January 2, 1914, was published in newspapers throughout
the country. It shows the first woman passenger of the nation's first
commercial airline between Tampa and St. Petersburg. The pilot was Tony
Jannus and the passenger Mae Peabody.

Walter
Beechman, the founder of Beechcraft Aviation, at the " Old Fairgrounds"
in Tampa.

Walter
Beechman, the founder of Beechcraft Aviation, at the " Old Fairgrounds"
in Tampa.

Buildings
and a water tower at the Old Drew Field on Oct. 5, 1953.

The
Marriott Airport Hotel in the early 1980s. It is located in the Tampa
International Airport.

Cars
parked out in front of Tampa International Airport, Drew Field, in the
early 1950s.

A
presentation for Eastern Airlines at Tampa International Airport on February
20, 1951.

Rose
Esperante's complimentary ticket for an "air-sightseeing cruise in world's
largest commercial sea plane" with the Pan American Airways System at
the Tampa International Airport for December 3, 1933.

Plane
on the runway at the Peter O. Knight Airport on Davis Island taken on
December 7, 1941.